150 Best Vegan Muffin Recipes [Paperback]

Camilla Saulsbury (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 26, 2012

Enjoy these sumptuous vegan recipes that are easy to prepare and incredibly versatile.

This undeniably delicious and varied assortment of vegan muffins will reassure anyone who has doubts about vegan baking. These muffins are easy to prepare simply by using readily-available ingredients like non-dairy milk, soy yogurt and ground flax seeds.

These recipes are sure to please anyone, whether they follow a vegan lifestyle or not:

• Fresh Plum Muffins with Walnut Sugar Tops
• Chocolate Avocado Muffins, Jelly Doughnut Muffins
• Gingerbread Muffins, Morning Oatmeal Muffins
• Chickpea Muffins with Indian Spices, Cranberry Rye Muffins
• Carrot Cake Muffins, Spinach Basil Muffins
• Georgia Peach Muffins, Cardamom Orange Muffins

Also included is everything that is needed for muffin mastery, including information on key vegan ingredients, a list of essential equipment and baking tips and advice. These family-friendly muffin recipes will delight the hungry at every time of the day -- from getting off to a great start to mid-afternoon snacks and even formal teas and showers. Both novice and experienced bakers will be hooked once they give these muffins a try -- tasting really is believing.

Editorial Reviews

About the Author

Camilla V. Saulsbury is a freelance food writer, recipe developer and cooking instructor. She has been featured on the Food Network, in the New York Times, on Today and QVC and has won several top cooking competitions, including the Food Network's $25,000 Ultimate Recipe Showdown (cookies episode). Camilla lives in Nacogdoches, Texas.

Product Details

• Paperback: 192 pages
• Publisher: Robert Rose (January 26, 2012)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0778802922
• ISBN-13: 978-0778802921
• Product Dimensions: 7 x 0.5 x 10 inches
• Shipping Weight: 15.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #265,779 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Camilla Saulsbury is a freelance food writer, recipe developer and cooking instructor. Her culinary focus is translating food and flavor trends into fresh, innovative, and delicious recipes for the home kitchen.

Camilla has been involved in the world of food for more than 16 years, including catering specialty desserts in the San Francisco Bay Area, writing cookbooks and freelance food articles, and developing recipes for national food companies. Further, she has won several of the country's top cooking competitions, including the $100,000 National Chicken Cook-Off, the $50,000 Build a Better Burger Contest, the Food Network's $25,000 Ultimate Recipe Showdown (Cookies Episode), and Top Chef Desserts $5000 Viewer Challenge.

Camilla's interest in food is also academic. She holds a Ph.D. in sociology from Indiana University with a specialization in food studies.

Camilla is the author of 16 cookbooks, published by Robert Rose Publishing, Sourcebooks and Turner Publishing and has worked as the brand ambassador for several multinational food companies.

Camilla has a second professional and personal passion: fitness. She has been teaching a wide range of fitness classes for almost two decades, including, but not limited to, pilates, yoga, spinning, kickboxing, strength training and step aerobics. Additionally, she trains for and competes in endurance fitness events. Her fitness philosophy mirrors her cooking philosophy: balanced, practical and simplified.

Camilla has made multiple appearances on the Food Network, has been featured in the New York Times, made appearances on Today, Good Morning America-Health, BetterTV and QVC, and is a member of the International Association of Culinary Professionals (IACP). Her work has appeared in such magazines as Southern Living, Better Homes and Gardens, Cooking Light, Woman's Day, Woman's World, Cosmo Girl, Quick & Simple, Country Woman, Sunset, Cook's Country, and Vegetarian Times.

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful

4.0 out of 5 stars Momma Hunt Reviews-250 Vegan Muffins April 26, 2012

By Erica Hunt

Format:Paperback

My overall review of the cookbook is a great one. There are a variety of muffins, from yummy transitional muffins like the ones above. They also have a variety of healthier options as well as savory muffins. For anyone who is looking to avoid dairy or who is Vegan this is a great option. I would give it a 4/5. The only reason it would be a four is there is no nutritional information provided with the muffins. This for me is a must in all foods. So if you are a muffin girl like me....go check it out

9 of 11 people found the following review helpful

2.0 out of 5 stars Discusses animal ingredients and "cooked chicken" awards November 22, 2012

By JL4321

Format:Paperback

With all due respect to the author- I wasn't so keen on reading animal ingredients listed in the "Muffin Mastery" section, or the description of the author's "chicken cook-off" and "burger" awards on the back cover. As a vegan cookbook, I found this to be discourteous, and isn't exactly something I want to see when I'm baking, or have around in my cookbook collection. The decision to choose a vegan lifestyle is based in ethics, and in all honesty, I found it disrespectful to these ethics by including these items in a vegan cookbook. I hope with any future vegan bandwagon cookbooks, the author will choose a vegan editor-or at the least run it by a vegan friend.

I'm sure I'll get a lot of negative comments for leaving this review, and that's okay. But this impacted my view of the book, and led me to decide not to purchase it- so wanted to leave an honest review and hopefully the author and editors will take note. (I had checked it out from the library for this review.)

As far as the recipes go, they were good. The gingerbread, blueberry muffins, and rosewater were a few i tried and all very tasty. There's a nice variety with some very unique flavors and combinations. If it weren't for the above statement, my review of the book would have been much higher.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars you want this book November 18, 2012

By Amy Gravitz

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I've never had luck making muffins - but this book solved that problem forever.

These are simple step-by-step recipes that create DELICIOUS muffins. And as a lifelong vegetarian, I am delighted to find such an experienced baker realizing the need for these recipes.

Enjoy!

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Easy and Delicious May 27, 2012

By Teresa Goudreau

Format:Paperback

I have several vegan eaters in my life, including my daughter, son-in-law, neighbors, and several good friends. I have been wanting to try vegan baking and decided to give this book a chance as I own the author's cake book. I am very please with how easy and delicious all of the recipes are. Full of flavor and great texture (I was worried about both). I find myself making these muffins more than regular muffins, even though I am not vegan.

5.0 out of 5 stars Amazing muffins my kids love! March 20, 2013

By Rachel H Bright Morones

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I have been vegan for over 10 years and have a huge collection of cookbooks. I love baking and have become pretty picky about what makes a good vegan muffin. I also have 3 small children who provide really honest feedback. This book is excellent. Most of the recipes use yogurt. I wasn't excited about yogurt in my baked goods before this book, but Saulsbury has made a convert out of me. My kids love the muffins. They especially love the banana muffins and the NY coffee cake. She has a mixture of savory and sweet muffins which is nice. I like how the book is organized. The directions are clear and simple. Most recipes I've been able to make in about 15 minutes not including baking time.

5.0 out of 5 stars inventive, varied, and satisfying muffins March 9, 2013

By stipendous

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Having already made forty of these recipes, I'm well on my way to cooking through the entire collection, which I've decided to attempt this year based on how much fun it's been coming this far. I do a lot of cooking and baking, and this collection of recipes has given more consistently solid results than I've found in most cookbooks. So far there's been one recipe I didn't particularly care for and second one I'd call a non-disastrous flop, but the remaining thirty eight recipes have all been delicious and well worth repeating, with a good handful yielding muffins definitely among the best I've ever had. I love that there are satisfying versions of the classics as well as creative offerings inspired by various global cuisines, yet the ingredients are all relatively cheap and easy to come by, and many recipes can be made entirely of ingredients already on hand in any decently stocked pantry. I think this would make as excellent a gift for a new cook as for a seasoned baker. The great thing about muffins is that they come together and bake up so quickly that even people who are very busy and or lack the confidence that comes with years of experience in the kitchen can find the time to bake up something really delicious and eminently shareable- to send to school in a kid's lunchbox, to bring to a sick friend, share at a potluck, or donate to a local charity bake sale. These recipes easily defy the idea that vegan foods need be spartan or 'less-than' in any way. What you get are just wonderful baked treats everyone will love, regardless of whether they otherwise abstain from eggs and/or dairy or do not. Highly recommended.

5.0 out of 5 stars Great February 26, 2013

By Kathleen McCarron

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I gave this to my vegan girlfriend and flipped at how many different and "easy" recipes were in this book.

4.0 out of 5 stars What is there not to like? January 31, 2013

By I. Darren

Format:Paperback

It is a sad fact that many vegetarian and vegan recipe books are ignored by the meat-eating majority partially out of ignorance, uncertainty and even fear of the unknown. This is a shame as good little books such as this, featuring 150 vegan muffin recipes, can fall by the wayside.
Here in a fairly plain, matter-of-fact book the reader is given a lot of interesting variations on a muffin theme (what else would you expect in a book of this kind?) that whilst being suitable for those on a vegan diet, still can remain very interesting, tasty and healthy options for all. Initial uncertainty or expectation of some form of `agenda promotion' was unfounded. You are dropped straight into the kitchen with a primer about `muffin mastery' and the knowledge just keeps on flowing.
This truly could be a great book for those who have never cooked a muffin from scratch, without being alienating for those who are a dab hand at it and are just looking for more different recipes. Some of the hints are quite thought-provoking, such that for testing the potency of your baking powder - baking powder is baking powder you might think.... at least before reading this book. Such little nuggets, tucked away at the start of the book, mean that even if you think you can make muffins standing on your head with one hand tied behind your back, it might be worth spending a few minutes checking out the `education' section"
Once you get to the recipes, first the author presents her top 20 favourites and after that they are split into breakfast muffins, coffeehouse muffins, lunch and supper muffins and finally global muffins (!). The book is not picture heavy - there are just a few colour photographs bound in the centre - and whilst pictures are always welcomed this is not a major handicap. Just a small niggle.... The recipes themselves sit one-to-a-page and are set out in a nice, formulaic manner - so there is nothing to complain about as it just delivers the goods in a workmanlike-manner.
Some of the recipes do seem somewhat esoteric, such as cherry-tomato muffins and jelly doughnut muffins, so either you need to have a great leap of faith or be adventurous when there are no pictures to help guide you or ease your uncertainty. When you get to the global muffins at the end of the book you can see how one's imagination can run riot with various muffins purportedly from different cultures. It is unclear if these are truly authentic or not at a quick glance as there is no local language name associated with them. Sometimes so-called authentic ethnic foods can be a surprise to nationals from their purported country of origin.
But what is there not to like about this book, assuming you like muffins. OK, you won't find any bacon and egg-flavoured muffins and the like here, but the variety given is such that even the most die-hard meat eater will surely find things of interest to nibble too. It is just a shame that the title might lead a few people to pass on by, based on their assumptions and prejudices. They are going to lose out on a treat, that is for sure. Read more ›